All you need is faith and trust... and a little bit of pixie dust!

So I want to start doing a blog so my family and friends can keep up on what I am doing throughout my journey through the Disney College Program. Also I am hoping if people are searching for blogs about the program they can find mine and I can give them some information on the program and the process. I read a lot of blogs while preparing for applying for the program and they helped a lot so I hope I can help others too, along with just entertaining fellow Disney lovers with the adventure I am about to start. 


"I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination." -Walt Disney


So I applied to the Disney College Program on September 5th, in which I just filled out a normal application listing previous jobs and experiences. Along with my resume. Within an hour or so of completing my application I recieved an e-mail that I was going to have to take the oh so scary Web Based Interview. The WBI was much like a personality test and consisted of a lot of "what would you do" and "are you more like this or like this". I had heard that you should be definite with your answer and confident, so I had tried to stay away from any answer that seemed neutral.

I found out directly after the WBI that I would get a chance to have a phone interview! I was soo NERVOUS. I prepped the entire week for it. My phone interview was on September 10th at 12:00pm. The interviewer called a couple minutes early so I was shaken up! Completely nervous but I knew what I wanted to say. The interview only lasted about 12minutes for me and that made me even more nervous. They asked questions like:

• Why do you want to participate in the DCP?
• Why did you show interest in the roles you chose?
• What do you do when you have a lot thrown at you at once?
• How will you deal with a repetitive work enviroment?
• Do you prefer to work inside or outside?
• What kind of previous experience?
• Have you lived away from home? With other people?

The questions went on, but I barely remember because that whole 12minutes were like a blur to me! We ended the conversation with my questions and then she told me to just keep checking my dashboard online where I had gone to apply.

After an exhausting week and half I got my acceptance e-mail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What an exciting feeling. MAIN ENTRANCE OPERATIONS!!! that was in my top 3 so I'm still pretty excited about it. 

After you see your offer letter, you get 10days to either accept it or decline. (in my opinion who would ever decline?! crazy people) You also have to pay a deposit and once you pay that you wait for an e-mail that lets you pick your arrival and departure dates: I chose Jan 9th-June 1st -- for obvious reasons it was the longest for the spring term. I kind of want to extend to a longer program, but between trying to stay on top with school and all we'll see how that works.

Speaking of school I am currently looking at the Univeristy of Florida, and the University of Central Florida to either transfer to for 3 semesters or a graduate school to get my masters in hospitality. I just need to figure out all the transferring information and the tidbits that go along with switching schools like that.